Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Birmingham Live website, a car company’s accounts manager stole nearly £500,000 from her employer, blowing most of it on TikTok tokens.

Katherine Greenall was gifting the tokens to content creators on the social media platform for her own “amusement and entertainment”.

As reported on The Standard website, London’s Oxford Street and other ‘flagship’ thoroughfares are at risk without urgent national action on crime.

Once Europe’s busiest shopping destination, Oxford Street has struggled in recent years – becoming better known for shoplifting, phone snatching and sweet shops.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that an accounts manager stole thousands from her employer despite living in a £1millon house and owning several rental properties.

Hemalatha Jayaprakash kept her illegal activities a secret from her own family.

The BBC News website reports that Greggs will move its self-serve food and drinks to behind the counter to stamp out shoplifting at the High Street bakery.

It is not expected that the change will be implemented across all Greggs’ 2,600 bakeries in the UK, but it may be rolled out to sites where there are high levels of theft.

As reported on the Met Police website, its officers have secured significant banning orders against two prolific shoplifters.

As part of their continued crackdown on retail crime, they arrested Winston Wright, who stole more than £2,500 worth of goods from stores over four months.

According to the Portsmouth News website, an accountant who stole more than £600k from her medical firm employers contributed to more than 125 of her colleagues losing their jobs.

A court heard how Jolene Groves may have defrauded as much as £1.6 million from the firm during a crime spree lasting six years.